This is a fairly complicated process, it depends how much of the circulation data you hope to transfer. You can add some of it to the 952 field in a MARC record - this can accommodate fields such as $l (letter l) number of times borrowed, and $q due date of item if currently checked out. If you can tell where this information resides in your old system, you can write a script to insert it to the MARC records and them the bulk MARC import process will include that in the item details. However this does not tell you who has each item. That would need to be imported to the issues table, as Chris says, and link to the borrowers table for the details of the person who has the item. Issues link to the borrower table through 'borrowernumber' and to the items table through 'itemnumber', and needs data such as branchcode, issuingbranch, date_due, issuedate, and timestamp. There is also oldissues, which holds the history of all completed checkouts. HTH Agnes Br. Francis Therese Krautter wrote:
Hello,
I am still working on importing data into koha. We have a rather large database and I am trying to move it over, most of it has moved so far, but one major importation I can't figure out how do is all the currently borrowed books. I can't find a marc field or a koha variable that looks like it contains this information. There are over 1000 books currently checked out, I really don't want to have to do it by hand!
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